NoteThing Planner vs Stellata
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NoteThing Planner
This app combines notes, tasks, goals, and reminders into a single, focused experience. It offers a rich text editor, task management with flexible recurrence, habit tracking, and smart reminders. Enjoy a unified productivity toolkit across all your Apple devices with a one-time purchase.
- Rich text and Markdown editor
- Task management with recurring options
- Habit and goal tracking
- Smart reminders with quiet hours
- Cross-device sync via iCloud
- Home Screen widgets
- Native Mac app
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Notes, tasks, goals, and reminders — together in one beautiful app. NoteThing is the productivity toolkit that replaces four apps with one. Capture quick thoughts, stay on top of deadlines, track habits over time, and never miss a reminder — from a single focused experience that works the same on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. One purchase covers every Apple device you own. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account to create. NOTES • Rich text editor with formatting toolbar • Full Markdown mode with live preview • Folders and color-coded tags for organization • Fast search across every note TASKS • Due dates with flexible recurrence (daily, weekly, monthly, custom) • Smart notifications: at time, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day before • Completed recurring tasks automatically create the next occurrence • Upcoming view rolls all your deadlines into a single timeline GOALS • Track habits daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly • Yes/No tracking or quantity goals (push-ups, miles, dollars saved) • Four display styles: checkbox, tally marks, streak counter, progress bar • Complete history with charts and momentum REMINDERS • Recurring schedules with the same flexibility as tasks • Built-in quiet hours so notifications never wake you at 2 a.m. • Pause and resume individual reminders without losing their schedule • Smart batching keeps you under the system's 64-notification limit WORKS EVERYWHERE • One Universal Purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac • iCloud sync via your own Apple Account — never our servers • Home Screen widgets in three sizes • Native Mac app with keyboard shortcuts, multi-select, and file export • Family Sharing supported HONEST PRICING • Buy once, own forever • No subscriptions, ever • No in-app purchases or paywalled features • No account to create — just your Apple Account • No ads, no upsells, no nags • Free updates for the life of the app SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into English, French, French (Canada), German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Japanese, and Korean. PRIVATE BY DESIGN NoteThing does not collect or transmit any personal data. Your content lives on your device and — if you choose — in your private iCloud. There are no servers holding your content, no analytics SDKs, and no third-party trackers in the app. Stop juggling four subscriptions. Get the calm of a single tool that does everything you need, owned outright. NoteThing is the productivity app you'll actually use.
Stellata
This app helps you visually organize saved links, images, videos, and PDFs. It automatically groups content by theme and offers multiple unique viewing modes, including a 3D galaxy and interactive moodboards. Collaborate with friends by merging libraries and discover content through visual search.
- Automatic content grouping
- Multiple visual display modes (Grid, Board, Wall, Galaxy, Globe, Projects)
- Interactive moodboard creation
- Direct phone-to-phone collaboration
- Import from existing platforms (Instagram, Pinterest, Are.na)
- Visual and text-based search
- Camera-based visual search
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Some things stay with you. The image you stop for. The idea you come back to. Stellata is where they go. Tap Share in any app — Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Pinterest, a blog, anything — and the picture, the words and the video come across with the link. Screenshots, photos, videos and PDFs come in too, no link needed. Then it starts to sort itself. ALIKE SAVES DRIFT TOGETHER Every link is read on your phone: its words, and what its picture shows. Nothing is sent anywhere. Tags appear on their own, and saves that belong together drift into groups in the galaxy, so even from far off you can see what your saving is really about. The same links gather into themes you can filter by — branding, motion, space, whatever you turn out to be into. EIGHT WAYS TO LOOK Grid — everything you saved, at a glance, image first. Pinch to see more or less at once. Board — your saves spread over one plane, like a wall. Drag to roam, pinch to zoom. Wall — your pictures in columns that go on forever, whichever way you go. Leave it be, and it drifts on its own. Galaxy — your library as a world in space, alike saves floating together in groups. Tap a link and a light travels out through everything it connects to, by picture, by meaning, by tag, through its own group and across to the others. Follow it somewhere unexpected. Sort it by color, by time, by site or by style, or place words of your own, and the links they're about gather around them. Globe — step inside the galaxy, your saves all around you, above and below. Drag to look around. Earth — your saves light up where in the world they are. Timeline — every save on one line, newest first, opening out as you scroll back through the days. Projects — a space for a trip, a piece of work, or whatever you're into this week, each with a moodboard to lay out by hand: move, pinch and twist the pictures, then draw, write and join them with arrows. Send one out as a lookbook, a PDF of every save. Hold a finger still and draw a loop in the galaxy or on a board, and everything inside is picked, ready to move, share or delete together. SIT DOWN WITH A FRIEND Put two phones side by side and your libraries become one galaxy, each in its own color. See where your tastes meet, pass a link across, and leave with a little of theirs. The phones talk to each other directly — nothing goes through a server, and only what you choose to bring ever leaves your phone. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY SAVED Your Instagram saves come across, and your Pinterest boards and Are.na channels too, so you start with your real collection instead of an empty page, and watch it sort itself into groups. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Type what you're looking for, or tap + to pick a color, a style or a photo, and the saves that fit fly in close. Or describe what a picture shows, like “cracked ice,” and Search finds it, even when no title or tag says so. It reads the words in your pictures too, so a screenshot turns up by what it says. Point the camera at a poster or a wall to see the saves that look most like it. Filter by site, by type, by color. Or just wander. ON YOUR MAC TOO Stellata is on the Mac as well, your library kept in step by iCloud, and Stellata Unlimited comes along. IT STAYS YOURS Everything syncs through your own iCloud, and previews are kept on the phone, so your library is there with no signal. Share a project and a few people can save into it together, on one moodboard. No account to make, no feed, no one else's algorithm. STELLATA UNLIMITED The free plan holds 30 links. Unlimited holds any number, as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. If Unlimited ends, nothing is deleted: your newest 30 stay open and the rest wait for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stellata.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Stellata at Free against NoteThing Planner's $2.99. Stellata also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). NoteThing Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Stellata is free to download; NoteThing Planner costs $2.99 up front. Stellata sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. NoteThing Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NoteThing Planner against 5.0 for Stellata. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
NoteThing Planner ships an update every 2 weeks, Stellata every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NoteThing Planner | Stellata |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Core Dump Software LLC | Abdullah Alkhatib |
Customer experience
NoteThing Planner
Stellata
In-app purchases
NoteThing Planner
No in-app purchases
Stellata
- Stellata Unlimited$1.991 Month
- Stellata Unlimited Lifetime$14.99









